SB Nation User Blog: BobbyV_Incognito

Name All of the Mets' Third Basemen

BobbyV_Incognito — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:38:31 -0000

Name All of the Mets' Third Basemen

Yes, all of them.

Mets Minor Leaguer Dies of Heart Attack

BobbyV_Incognito — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:22:30 -0000

Mets Minor Leaguer Dies of Heart Attack

Their inaccurate headline, not mine. He's been with our VSL team for a couple of seasons, but he hadn't yet gotten out of the baseball academy in Venezuela. Feel free to make your own jokes about how our players are now actually bypassing the DL now.

Why are you a Mets fan?

BobbyV_Incognito — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:37:34 -0000

Why are you a Mets fan?

I don't mean philosophically, I mean how did you come to root for the Mets. Were your parents Mets fans, were the Mets your first exposure to baseball, or was it something else?

Livan to see time at first?

BobbyV_Incognito — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:07:22 -0000

Livan to see time at first?

Since Shef's not going on the DL right now, we're down to a 3 man bench. Thus, Jerry says that should the need arise, Livan may wind up being used as the poor man's Micah Owings, except fatter.

Amazin' Avenue Fantasy League?

BobbyV_Incognito — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:10:36 -0000

With pitchers and catchers about to report, that can only mean one thing: it's time for fantasy baseball.

I'm hoping there's enough interest for this to work. I was thinking H2H, points-based, 10-12 people, AL/NL mixed league, either CBS Sports or Yahoo. I'll wait to see if there's a concensus preference for either one before setting it up. To keep things friendly (and simple), we'll just use a free league, unless people really are willing to pay an entry fee. Not that I don't trust you guys, but collecting all of the money can be a pain. They're less customizable, but the price is right. I'll open it up to the first 11 respondents. Won't schedule the draft until much closer to Opening Day, so a response right now isn't an absolute commitment, but it's always more fun without dead teams.

Sabathia in Pinstripes

BobbyV_Incognito — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:49:16 -0000

Sabathia in Pinstripes

CC Sabathia has agreed to a 7-year, $161 million contract with the Yankees. He can opt out after three years.

Braves set to acquire Vasquez

BobbyV_Incognito — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:26:29 -0000

Braves set to acquire Vasquez

Looks like we're about to lose out on Javier Vasquez. Atlanta is said to be giving up Brent Lillibridge and 3 so far unnamed players. I guess Castillo wasn't an attractive enough offer for Kenny Williams.

Renaming Citi Field?

BobbyV_Incognito — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:21:39 -0000

With Citigroup circling the drain, it seems like a good time to ask if maybe the company has a more productive use of $400 million than naming rights to a baseball field. And now, a couple of City Council members want to force a name change on the field to reflect the company's 'new ownership'.

Staten Island Council members James Oddo and Vincent Ignizio are saying that Citi Field ought to be renamed Citi/Taxpayer Field, since Citi is now being thrown a multi-billion dollar lifeline from the Treasury Department. Nice bit of grandstanding, but it'll never happen. Now how about the Council get back to work fixing the budget deficit?

Citi/Taxpayer Field?

Burgos being sought in deaths of 2 women

BobbyV_Incognito — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:49:46 -0000

Burgos sought in fatal car accident

New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos was driving an SUV when it slammed into two women who later died of their injuries, police said.

Police Col. Eulogio Taveras said Josefina Minaya Martinez, 38, and Angely Fana, 29, were struck Tuesday evening by a new Hummer registered to the 24-year-old reliever in his Caribbean homeland. The women died at a hospital in Nagua, a town 112 miles north of the capital, Santo Domingo.

Seems like a safe bet we've seen the last of him, regardless of the outcome of the investigation. Between his shoulder surgery and the domestic violence charge from his girlfriend, his future with the Mets looked tenuous at best.

Bobby V's solution

BobbyV_Incognito — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:28:25 -0000

Imagine a world where the Mets' pen sucks? That's unpossible!

I'd like to trade Show; someone's always willing to overpay for a left-handed specialist. See if we can package him with Schneider for someone. (No, that's not entirely a pen issue, but Schneider sucks. Maybe the Reds really will be interested-they've apparently gone from being a professional baseball franchise to a charity.) But any contender who needs relief help isn't going to be able or willing to offer a quality reliever to help us in return for Show. And teams that aren't contending won't have any interest in him. As long as the guy's having a career year, we might as well ride it.

Show should be our primary lefty specialist, but neither he nor Pedro 2 should be allowed to face right-handers.

Move Stokes from the rotation to the pen when Maine comes back.

Send Muniz back down. Stokes takes his spot in the pen.

Move Heilman back to middle relief and make Kunz the closer. He's supposed to be our closer of the future, and he really can't do any worse than Heilman's done. I don't think Heilman would pass through waivers, and he's really just going through a rough patch, albeit a really rough one.

Sanchez should become the primary set-up man, pitching in the 8th.

Demote Smith (I like him, but it looks like he's hitting a wall again). Since Wise, Burgos, and Armas are all injured (God, we're snakebit), I say bring up...get ready...Tim McNab from NO. In 477 1/3 career innings, he's allowed just 25 home runs. His career WHIP is a quite respectable 1.32, and this season it's only 1.19. He just turned 28 in June, and despite decent numbers, has never gotten a shot at the big show.

Currently, this gives us a pen of:

Heilman, Sanchez, Feliciano, Stokes, Kunz, McNab, and Schowenweis.

When Wags comes back, we can demote Kunz, McNab, or Stokes; whichever one's sucking the most.